Let's Get Free is the debut studio album by hip-hop duo dead prez. It was released on February 8, 2000, on Loud Records. The album is mainly produced by dead prez, along with additional production from Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian, Hedrush, and Kanye West. The album is supported by its five singles: "Police State", "Hip-Hop", "It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop", "I'm a African", and "Mind Sex". The album peaked at number 73 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and number 22 on the U.S. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
The album dives deep into topics such as the public education system, racism, freedom of speech and police brutality. Let's Get Free was followed up with their second studio album, RBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta in 2004, but after the duo started releasing independent work and strayed away from the mainstream.
Background
During Stic.man attendance at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in the mid-90s, he met M-1. Once relocating to Brooklyn after FAMU, due to their mutual love for music and similar political ideology (leftist), they both formed a rap duo in 1996.
In the same year that dead prez was formed, they signed a record deal with label Loud Records.
In a 2010 interview with HipHopDX, M-1 goes in depth about the beginning of the process of recording Let's Get Free.